WWSD?

What would Sotomayor do (WWSD)?

In 1844, the $7 million estate of Stepehn Girard (a French deist) was to be used to establish an orphanage and school in Philadelphia with the stipulation that no religious influence be allowed. The city rejected the proposal. Their lawyers declared, "The plan of education proposed is anti-christian, and therefore repugnant to the law... The purest principles of morality are to be taught. Where are they found? Whoever searches for them must go to the source from which man derives his faith - the Bible... There is an obligation to teach what the Bible alone can teach, viz. a pure system of morality."

The case went before the U.S. Supreme Court, Vidal v Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. 126, 132. Unanimous decision: "Christianity... is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and blasphemed against, to the annoyance of believers or the injury of the public... It is unnecessary for us, however, to consider the establishment of a school or college, for the propogation of... Deism, or for any other form of infidelity. Such a case is not to be presumed to exist in a Christian country... Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? ...It is also said, and truly, that the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania."

Blows you away, doesn't it?

WWSD?